KUMC Collection Management Policy

Summary of Cooperative Collection Development Agreements

The Dykes Library is the largest resource for health sciences literature in the state of Kansas. Also, in the states of Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska, we are the largest health sciences collection within a radius of 200 miles from Kansas City. We are a major net lender of materials to health sciences institutions within our region (Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Nebraska). Our goals in reaching cooperative agreements include:

1. Providing access to our clientele to materials which fall outside the scope of this collection.

2. To supplement coverage in areas which are collected at less complete levels, or to provide access to materials which are not available at that time to clientele.
3. To fulfill our obligations to other libraries in the Regents' system of institutions, and to the libraries in the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (Midcontinental Region).
4. To make our resources available to libraries and practitioners in the Kansas City metropolitan area.

We participate in the following formal cooperative groups:

1. State of Kansas Regents' Universities libraries.
   
   These include: University of Kansas-Lawrence , Kansas State University, Wichita State University , Emporia State University , Fort Hays State University , Pittsburg State University and the University of Kansas Medical Center. These institutions make available to one another ILL service without additional charge. These libraries are our primary source of non-medical materials (especially basic sciences, behavioral sciences, social sciences and technology). In turn, we are their major resource for medical materials. Our borrowing/lending activity with the University of Kansas-Lawrence is in rough balance. We are net lenders to the rest of the Regents' libraries.